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The document defines the linguistic terms "word", "phoneme", and "morpheme". It then discusses the major and minor word formation processes in English, including affixation, compounding, reduplication, supplation, acronym, blending, clipping, and coinage. New words can be formed through combining morphemes via rules, such as adding prefixes and suffixes. Compounding joins words, reduplication duplicates parts of words, and other processes create new words through shortening, blending, or inventing terms.
- Author
- Luka Shelia
- Language
- EN